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Cheam is a very special place. Both happy and caring our school offers the brightest of learning environments to inspire. It is also the perfect place to grow - we know that the early years of a child’s life are the very best time to prepare the ground for their adulthood, and our focus at Cheam is on providing the most compelling setting for every child to thrive. There is a ‘feeling’ about our school that cannot be engineered. It is an organic manifestation of an educational environment where opportunity is provided alongside reassurance, where independence co-exists with support, and where kindness is instilled alongside resilience. It is this ethos that ensures our Cheam leavers, year on year, take happiness, confidence, and emotional intelligence with them on to pastures new. Cheam has long-standing relationships with some of the very best independent schools in the country, and we pride ourselves on guiding every child in our care to exactly the right next step. We help parents manage applications, pre-tests, and the successful transition of their children at 13, delivering outstanding exam results and winning a wide range of scholarships along the way. The way we see it, a child’s Cheam years aren’t just a stepping stone to a top public school. They are a voyage of discovery, a chance to discover their essence of excellence, to develop phenomenal talents, and to build the foundations (in both work and play) of the adult that child will one day be. In a world as rapidly changing as our own it is impossible to predict what society will ask of our children in the years to come. What we can say with certainty though, is that an education that prepares a child for anything, that teaches them to be the very best versions of themselves, and that enables them to look ahead with confidence, and behind with pride, is both timeless and priceless. At Cheam, we prepare our children not only for the next stage but for life beyond. The school nurtures and develops the intellectual, personal, physical, emotional, creative, and empathetic core values and skills in each pupil. This is done through the creation of a happy, stimulating environment in which pupils experience a diverse range of opportunities and are encouraged to ‘give it a go’ and strive to give their best in all they do. We expect the highest standards in all aspects of living and working in a school community. Cheam employs a staff of the highest caliber who seek to mesh the very best in modern thinking with traditional values to produce intelligent enquiring children who are happy confident leaders. We want all of our pupils ultimately to look back at their days at Cheam as the best days of their lives. View full school

We are very proud of our school and the children and young adults that study here. Our students are excellent ambassadors for the school. They develop into confident and articulate young adults who are committed to preparing for their future career and study choices. Examination results show their excellent progress. We have a high number of students who choose to stay on in the sixth form whilst others secure appropriate courses or apprenticeships with a vocational focus. At post 16, approximately 200 students progress to university each year. Our staff is dedicated to providing students with excellent support to thrive at school. This relates to academic progress as well as extracurricular experiences and pastoral care. Our staff is well qualified and the school supports them to share best practices so that our standard of teaching and support is both high quality and also continually developing. Our aim is the pursuit of excellence for all. We strive for the development of individual potential in a stimulating and inspiring school that is at the heart of the local community. Cheam High School aims to create a welcoming and exciting learning environment where we: Provide a rich, diverse, and challenging education through excellent and innovative teaching and learning. Celebrate success, promote a "can do" attitude and inspire each to achieve their best. Support personal development, social responsibility, and a sense of self-worth Develop the attitudes and skills that support a healthy and fulfilled life together with the confidence for a lifetime of learning. Work as partners in learning with students, parents/carers, and the community. Provide a safe, supportive, and well-ordered environment where students and staff are happy and confident as they aspire to achieve. The school offers a broad curriculum, with a range of extra-curricular activities making up an important part of what we provide. Cheam High School also has a variety of extra-curricular activities which are open to students of all ages and abilities. At Cheam High School Sixth Form we provide the kind of experience that will allow all students to progress to either University, Apprenticeships, or Employment. Whilst our curriculum is vast and the teaching and learning outstanding, we are extremely proud of the support we provide for all students to achieve both their academic goals and ensure that they are happy. With a dedicated Sixth Form team of nine, any worries or concerns will be addressed whether academic or pastoral. View full school

We are a very successful and forward-looking school, seeking all the time to improve and progress. We are very proud to be a Church of England school and we value our strong links with both the Southwark Diocese and our parish church, St Dunstan’s Cheam. We aim to provide a happy, inclusive, secure, and stimulating learning environment where Christian values are embraced by all, no matter what their faith background. Working together, we will nurture individuality, provide challenge, develop self-esteem and promote respect for each other, enabling the children to grow into confident, responsible, and compassionate young people with high aspirations for the future. Our School fosters a Christian ethos and provides a high quality of care and education for every member of the school community. Christian values are promoted through the whole curriculum. We aim to motivate everyone to engage fully in the broad range of educational opportunities provided to develop their potential. We encourage all our children to achieve high standards and to grow as happy, confident, compassionate, independent young people who show respect for others, have a desire to learn, and who are eager to make positive and caring contributions to the wider community, its people and environment. The DfE have reinforced the need "to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs." The Church has always taken a lead in education and in 1826 it founded, in Malden Road, a school to educate the children of the Parish of Cheam Village and Cuddington. In 1863, St Dunstan's Church started an infants' school in a cottage on the edge of Nonsuch Park, on the present Nonsuch High School site. In 1869 the infants moved to the Parochial Rooms in Broadway. After a couple of years, while the boys transferred to a junior school, the older girls were retained with the infants, and the school became known as the Cheam and Cuddington Girls’ and Infants’ School. The Malden Road School became known as Cheam Junior Boys' School. The girls and infants stayed in the Parochial Rooms until 1907 when they moved to a new building in Jubilee Road. In 1943 boys were allowed to stay on from the age of seven years to make it a mixed five to eleven primary school. The name St Dunstan's School was adopted in the 1950s. The school was amalgamated with Cheam Junior Boys in 1989 and renamed St Dunstan's, Cheam, School. Construction of the new larger two-form entry building was started on the last day of October 1991. The foundation stone was laid by the Bishop of Southwark in the following February and the building was completed in November 1992. The building was occupied in January 1993. St Dunstan's Church and friends of the school raised money for the stained glass window that has been installed in the Entrance Hall. The window shows Christ as Wisdom with Dunstan at His feet and is based on a mid-10th-century drawing believed to be from the hand of Dunstan when he was Abbot of Glastonbury. St Dunstan’s, Cheam, Church of England Primary School has a very strong Christian ethos which is at the heart of everything that we do and provides a high quality of care and education for every member of our school community. Christian values are promoted through the whole curriculum and we aim to motivate everyone to engage fully in the broad range of educational opportunities provided to develop their potential. We welcome applications from all members of the community. Many parents apply to this school because of its strong Christian ethos and we ask all parents to support our ethos and respect its importance to our school community. View full school